On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:56:19AM -0800, Mike Lyon wrote:
What are people using these days to suck down an IMAP account, search it and then export the search results? Any suggestions.
I'd replied off-list, but then realized that perhaps this would be of more general interest. My apologies to Mike for the redundancy. I use fetchmail and grepmail. Grepmail emits as its output a Unix mbox file, so it lends itself quite nicely to going through chunks of saved mail, matching grep-ish criteria (including headers) and producing a file full of the messages that match. Let me also mention formail, which is part of the procmail distribution, and is also quite useful -- in this particular case, for culling duplicates. All three of these tools are part of my standard postmaster toolbox. ---Rsk